25 Bookish Facts About Me!

25 Bookish Facts About Me

So, this ‘tag’ consists of 25 random bookish facts that I could think of…

1

I hate audiobooks. I tried to listen to them once during a 7 hour car ride and I couldn’t focus on what the reader was saying nor on the plot and I got distracted all the time. Another time I tried to listen to an audiobook at home I got so bored that I crocheted - and forgot all about the audiobook.

2

I also hate E-Books. I just like to have the weight of a physical book in my hands to read - if I’d read on an E-Bookreader or - more likely, since I don’t have such a device - on my laptop, I’d get distracted very - very fast. The light of those devices is too bright for my eyes and I keep getting a headache when I stare at glaring screens.

3

I have never read the Harry Potter series until my 19th birthday. That was when I got the whole series. I’m still at it.

4

My favourite author of all time is Stephen King.

5

The first book I read by him by the age of 11 - and I think that has seriously damaged me in various ways :D

6

I don’t judge books by their covers. I judge them by title and premise.

7

I like used bookstores and very old books. I like the smell of them. Most of the Czech copies of novels I own are at least 30 years old.

8

I rarely read books in my native language. Why? Because of Booktube and all the great international authors that are out there that I want to read works of. Not that the German literature scene was bad or anything, but I like to read the books in the language that they were originally written in, if possible.

9

I’m having a hard time to choose what to read next. That is because I have so many books that I have not yet read but want to read ASAP.

10

I have written two books and have participated in NaNoWriMo twice. The first one is about a Murder that took place 60 years ago and is now being solved a second time, the second being about a girls whose pedophile admiror finds out she has a dark side to her that arouses him even more. That was about the sickest thing I could imagine at that time.

11

My boyfriend hates books, but sometimes when I just can’t keep it in I talk to him a lot about books which I think annoys him quite a bit. Yet he keeps listening to me.

12

I taught myself to read at the age of 5 and have been a heavy reader since then, with a pause by maybe 13 or 14 years til the age of 17.

13

I have read 27 books in 2015

14

My favourite book when I was young was The Wild Chicks Series by Cornelia Funke. And I still want to reread them.

15

When I was maybe 9 or 10 I was a member in the Pony Club (I think they call themselves Pennigirl now) where I was sent a book monthly to read. I still have all of them.

16

The longest series I have ever read consisted of 9 books of about 300 pages each.

17

The worst book I have ever read was 50 Shades of Grey.

18

I did not finish the Twilight series. I was about halfway through the first book when I had to give it up for good.

19

Sometimes I’d like to torture people who use spoilers in everyday language as it if were something normal to just go and ruin my life.

20

I love Yaoi Manga. Period.

21

I have wanted to be a writer since I was six years old and have never stopped.

22

I like to drink tea while I read. When I don’t have tea with me when I read it’s probably because I read in bed right before I go to sleep.

23

I run the school library and use my free hours to go and read there in the cozy seats.

24

I have never enjoyed romance books. And I guess I never will, though.

25

The book I’m currently reading is 'Lustrum’ by Robert Harris and I’m having a hard time to get through it.